I want to put a fender eliminator on my bike, also known as a license plate holder. You remove the stock fender on the back that contains reflectors, the plate, and a bunch of plastic, and replace it with a much smaller holder for the plate. These can be had aftermarket for about $75 USD give or take $10-$20. I figured I could make one at work with the laser table for free, and get to design it myself! I started by removing the fender on my bike, and discovered that the 4 fasteners on it have an aluminum plate sandwiched in-between them and the plastic fender! This is a great thing to measure off of to make my bracket.

I started off by removing the aluminum sandwich plate and bolting my fender back on, bolts right to the plastic. At this point I don’t care if the fender is not meant to be held on there with just bolts as I’m not concerned about wrecking it. I then downloaded Google Sketchup which I have worked with in the past, but I haven’t used it in roughly a year and a half.. I was able to take the stock sandwich plate from Suzuki and duplicate it in about 35 mins with no trouble at all! Fuck I love Sketchup!

Here’s a pic of the product and the copy, before I modify it to work as a new fender eliminator for my bike. It’s not an exact copy as you can see by the top tips on mine being a little sharper, but I can go back in and modify that later.

Once I do a bit more research on how I’m going to light the plate, I can go ahead and finish the design, and get it laser cut and powder coated. The final product will have bolts on the side so it can pivot as well.

I bought a bike last thursday (march 31st)! I haven’t got it yet, but I *might* get it this weekend. They are building it this week, and if I get all my insurance/registration stuff sorted out, I could possibly be riding all weekend!!

Here’s a picture of it. It’s a 2010 Suzuki GSX-R 750.

I’m really excited about it, but at the same time, I’m shitting myself, too.

I’m new to bikes. This is the first motorbike I have owned since I was a kid, and I’ve done a very limited amount of riding since then. I know most people think it’s not smart to hop right onto a sport bike without training on a smaller bike first, but I’m confident in my knowledge, skills, and intelligence to believe that I will be able to handle it just fine.

I have an idea of a video blog (vlog) of my trials, learning to ride a machine like this. Almost like proof.. whether it’s proof that I can buy a gixxer 750 and be safe, or proof that I am an idiot for doing so, is yet to be determined. Anyway, money permitting I will hopefully end up with a small camera and start recording my journey.

Wish me luck!

17:52:08 @Mambo: weather sure changed fast
17:52:11 @Mambo: walked to saveonfoods
17:52:14 @Mambo: nice and sunny
17:52:15 @Mambo: walk back
17:52:18 @Mambo: thunder and rainy
17:52:44 @raskull: use a car you fucking hobo

I have been tossing around the idea of making a complete-as-I-can-remember list of all games I have finished (seen credits, etc) over the years. I finally got down to it while bored at work and starting jotting down the names of the games I had finished in my phone. After gathering quite a big list from the depths of my memory, from Commodore 64 and the Amiga, all the way up to PS3/PC games of today. I pitched my idea to fydo on IRC. He promptly said that he had already done such a list, and pointed me towards backloggery.com which is just the place to keep track of all this.

The site allows you to add games and set a status for them. “Playing”, or “Wish list” as well as “unfinished”, “beaten”, “completed”, or “mastered”. I added the games I’m playing now (Left 4 Dead and Quake 3 Arena in LIVE form), and got to adding all the games I had written down in my phone.

This is a pretty cool idea in my opinion, much better than the plan I had to just add it to here in a table. :P

Anyways, check out my profile if you’re willing to give in to the reality that I am better at games than you.

Some ones of note that I’m sort-of proud of:

• Half-Life 2: Episode 2 (all achievements done, rocket man, 333 grubs, etc)
• Little Big Planet (all levels 100% complete, Kyle and I did this together)

Some ones of note that stick out as incredible games (for their time, or even now):

• MDK II (So fun, I have finished it many times)
• Quake III Arena (Rocket Arena III, oh how I loved thee)
• Left 4 Dead (incredible gameplay, funnest co-op game ever made)
• Rollcage II (the first racing game with a puzzle mode that I played, changed the way I look at racing games forever)
• Syndicate (Open style play, mass violence, and the first game with an “active city”. Like GTA3, but very old)
• Serious Sam Series (Intense co-op play, one of the best lan games there is to this day)
• Trackmania Series (best racing games ever made.. hands down)